.@JonErpenbach said lawmakers were planning to put $350 million into a “Republican slush fund.”
GOP cochairs: “These investments are above and beyond the billions in federal funding our school districts are receiving and highlight our continued commitment to our students, teachers, and parents.”
.@repborn says the $350 million likely won’t be used on schools in this budget. The funding will create a higher baseline for school funding for the 2023 budget.
The bottom line: schools over the next two years will get $150 million, not $500 million.
.@repborn and @SenMarklein didn't explain whether their plan will provide enough state funding to meet federal maintenance-of-effort requirements.
The state must meet certain spending levels to keep billions in federal school funding.
.@repborn said he learned of the maintenance-of-effort issue a couple of days ago and Republicans would work on the issue.
The issue was raised in an April memo. @briana_reilly asked him about that memo, but Born and other Republicans walked away without answering her question.
Sen. @JonErpenbach tells Republicans they are shaming people by referring to the Medicaid program BadgerCare Plus as welfare.
@repborn shoots back: "This is basic English words that are used to define these programs. ... I will tell it like it is and that is what this is."
Expanding Medicaid would boost Wisconsin's budget by $1.6 billion over two years because the federal government would pay for more of the state's health-care costs.
Born says Republicans who control the Legislature won't accept "a billion-dollar bribe."
With his comments last week, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said the upper house would not approve bills allowing recreational or medical marijuana.
“They are meeting all the goals that we have set,” Vos said of Foxconn. “But again Gov. Evers is playing politics with this.”
“Foxconn is making concessions because they are having their back up against the wall even though they are meeting the goals that were set by the last administration and by the legislation we enacted,” Vos said, referring to the original deal cut by @ScottWalker.
"The governor doesn’t seem to want to keep the state’s deal, which is why he’ll come forward with a new proposal," Vos said.
But Vos said he thought Foxconn is committed to its project and likely would not leave the state.